supported by a massive fleet, invade Saipan in the Mariana Islands of the Central Pacific. June 19, 1944 Japan's counterattack results in the greatest carrier battle of World War II. U.S. forces ...

In humid, midnight skies, the PBY Catalinas of World War II flew low over the waters of the Southwest Pacific. The black-painted Navy planes had one role: to cut the supplies Japanese ships ...

The United States Navy (USN) entered World War II when Japanese aircraft battered its fleet of old ... fought the opening battles of the Pacific War without the support of fast battleships.

A detachment of ships of the Russian Pacific Fleet consisting of the Steregushchiy-class corvettes “Aldar Tsydenzhapov” and “Rezkiy” and the Dubna-class light fleet oiler Pechenga has left Vladivostok ...

the Pacific Fleet Submarine Museum (formerly the USS Bowfin Submarine Museum & Park) sits in Pearl Harbor. This historic vessel, which went on nine patrols during World War II, is one of only 15 U ...

"Take no prisoners. Fight to the bitter end." Those were everyday words to combat troops on both sides at the end of World War II in the Pacific. And they led to an unprecedented orgy of slaughter.